Potpourri
1. Medicine Tending to draw together or constrict tissues; styptic.
2. Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe: astringent remarks.
What is astringent?
1. A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
2. The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander.
What is calumny?
One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
What is harbinger?
One who behaves badly, often by breaking rules of conduct or the law.
What is miscreant?
To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending; claim or profess.
What is purport?
1. The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
2. A sign of something coming; an omen.
What is augury?
Lacking reverence; not pious.
What is impious?
To make amends or reparation for; atone for:
What is expiate?
Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation.
What is profligate?
Very bad reputation; notoriety: achieved infamy as the central figure in the scandal.
What is infamy?
Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness.
What is probity?
To pamper.
What is cosset?
Overindulgence in food or drink.
What is surfeit?
Assistance in time of distress; relief.
What is succor?
A direct ancestor.
What is progenitor?
Moral corruption or degradation.
What is depravity?
One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
What is iconoclast?
Firmly and long established; deep-rooted.
What is inveterate?
An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
What is portent?
Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.
What is penitent?
To ignore or disregard (a rule or convention, for example) in an open or defiant way.
What is flout?
1.a. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
b. Archaic Having choler as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
2. Showing or expressing anger: choleric remarks.
What is choleric?
To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame.
What is denigrate?
An abundance or excess of something:
What is plethora?
Resembling a precipice; extremely steep.
What is precipitous?